Illustrated Companion to the Latin Dictionary/Baccha

Illustrated Companion to the Latin Dictionary, and Greek Lexicon (Rich, 1849)

BACCHA (Βάκχη). A Bacchante; a female who celebrates the mysteries of Bacchus. (Ovid. Her. x. 48.) They are frequently represented in works of art, and described by the poets (Ov. Met. vi. 591.), as in the illustration (Baccha/1.1), with a wreath of vine leaves or ivy round the head, loose flowing hair, a mantle made of kid-skin, on the left side, and the thyrsus in the right hand, running like mad women through the streets. The figure here introduced, which is from a bas-relief of the Villa Borghese, instead of the skin on her person, carries part of a kid in her left hand.

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  Baccha/1.1